Greg Locke's church fell from 3,000 to 300. He pretends he's glad

Jehovah's Witnesses scrub blood transfusions from their research guide but keep the article ordering members to shun disfellowshipped family.

That article still says love for Jehovah must be stronger than love for a disfellowshipped relative, even though the organization told Norway's courts it does not shun family members so it could keep its state funding. The convention videos they pulled from JW.org show a daughter ignoring her disfellowshipped mother's calls and calling herself a spiritual orphan, the same silence that took away a best friend named Sean. Kid Rock's new Christian song "Jesus Is King" lifts its melody straight from Kenny Rogers' "The Gambler," and the music video adds ghost effects, a baptism that turns beer into water and a Tupac shirt on a Donald Trump supporter. His old lyrics about the Olsen twins, Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton sit badly next to all that talk of forgiveness. Greg Locke's Noah's Ark in Turkey fails every test. Answers in Genesis geologist Andrew Snelling reported modern carbon dates on earlier samples, the drogue stones turn out to be local andesite with crosses added by Armenian Christians, and the mountain seashells come from seafloor limestone that tectonic plates pushed up. Locke's Deliverance Handbook blames demons for autism, cancer and bipolar disorder, and his own post admits the church shrank from three thousand to about three hundred. Authoritarian control, hidden finances and an FBI raid over a house bought with church funds explain that drop better than any remnant prophecy. Subscribe, leave a review and say whether you think Greg Locke believes a word of it.

0:00 - Jehovah's Witnesses research guide drops blood transfusions but keeps family shunning despite Norway ruling
12:29 - Kid Rock's Christian song "Jesus Is King" accused of ripping off Kenny Rogers' "The Gambler"
23:55 - Greg Locke's Noah's Ark claims in Turkey debunked, and his shrinking "remnant" church

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